Chapter 493: The Heroes, Confront Each Other

Everyone looked in the direction the voice came from. There stood four with black eyes and black hair. The same black eyes and black hair as the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes, but the two men are tall and their builds are sturdy. And there is strength in their eyes, and dignity in their existence itself. One of the women standing side by side is also tall but slender and has large breasts. And with a sharp face and strong eye power, she is standing while glaring this way. The woman sandwiched between the two men is short, has two hair buns placed on top of her head, takes one man’s arm, and looks somewhat frightened. And beside those four there was a familiar face.

""""Lord Hütter!!""""

The voices of everyone who came from the Royal Capital matched.

Hütter who heard that,

"It’s been a while."

Said only that.

"Why in a place like this?"

Noshima asks. There are those who know that Hütter went to the Empire, and those who do not.

"There were various things."

"Such a thing... You summoned us arbitrarily..."

Abe reproaches.

"I don’t know such a thing. Everything is a thing of the past. I only go to a place that recognizes my power. The kingdom underestimated my power, and the Empire made a proper assessment. It is only that."

Hütter spits out in a small voice, what a foolish thing to ask.

"What foolish, because of you we... damn it!!"

Abe places Tsukahara’s remains on the ground, and with a bright red face grips the sword with a trembling hand. The sword is also trembling.

Noshima in a voice that suppressed emotion,

"What are you guys? Did you guys kill Kotaro?"

Asks while trembling his hand.

The great man with black eyes and black hair comes forward,

"That’s right. We are the Heroes summoned to the Hagen Empire, Zhu Biao. I ask again, are you guys the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes?"

Asked in a voice without emotion.

"That’s right, we are companions of the Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes. Did you guys kill Kotaro?"

"Kotaro? Are you talking about that rolled corpse?"

"That’s right! Companion Hero Kotaro Tsukahara!"

"The guy who tried to harm that wyvern? That wyvern is ours. Xu Meiyi there is controlling it. Xu Meiyi is a Tamer. If someone who tries to harm the creature a companion is controlling appears, it is natural to repel that, right?"

"Control wyverns? A Tamer?"

The Mainz Kingdom people did not know Tamer, but Noshima and Abe know. Now that it is said, if said to be legitimate self-defense it also seems like it could become legitimate self-defense.

The Empire’s Hero says.

"You guys say Heroes, but aren’t you terribly weak for that? In the Empire there are those who possess about that much power. With about that saving the country is laughable."

He is saying laughable, but the expression is severe.

Noshima had a calm part remaining, but Abe’s head was boiling.

"You guys, don’t say difficult things! If you guys killed Kotaro, I’ll take revenge! Die!!"

He brandishes the sword and leaps at the Hagen Empire’s Hero.

"Stop! Makoto, stop it! We can’t match them, we can’t match those guys!"

Noshima desperately tries to stop Abe but does not make it in time. Noshima wraps mana on his whole body and strikes with all his soul on the sword.

From beside Zhu Biao a man who wrapped mana on the sword comes forward in an instant and draws the sword and receives Abe’s sword.

Kin!!

Sword and sword collide and sparks scatter.

"Uuuuu!"

Even though Abe collided the sword with all his strength, leeway can be seen in the opponent man’s expression.

"Stop! Draw the sword! You can’t match him! Stop!"

Noshima yells, but Abe who heard that became even more stubborn,

"Shut up! I’ll take revenge for Kotaro!"

Shouts, and when he tried to raise the sword once more, the opponent’s sword was stabbed into Abe’s chest. In the eyes of Noshima watching from behind, the tip of the sword piercing Abe’s armor is visible. That sword is shining and it could be seen that mana is probably granted. The light of the mana wrapping Noshima’s body thins.

"Guu!"

To Abe who still tries to move even after being stabbed with the sword, Zhu Biao who was watching that quickly approaches and beheaded Abe. Abe’s head dances in the air while raising a spray of blood, falls to the ground and rolls.

"Stop useless resistance. If you surrender I will spare your life."

Zhu Biao says in a voice without emotion.

"Release the weapon and sit on the ground. You are a companion of the Heroes. The one called Sage? Release that staff. If you resist you will become like this guy."

Said that, Noshima sat down with a plop on the ground. He pulls close Abe’s head that rolled in front of his eyes,

"Abe————!!"

Screams.

The Mainz Kingdom people were all dumbfounded watching the fight of both countries’ Heroes. The Mainz Kingdom’s Heroes that they themselves could not match at all were defeated extremely easily. Aren’t the Empire’s Heroes and the Kingdom’s Heroes like a fight between adults and children. The Kingdom people release their weapons and sit on the ground. Hütter who saw that,

"Kingdom people. There is a base nearby, right? Convey to the people at the base that the Kingdom’s Heroes are gone. Two died, and one became a prisoner of the Empire. Leave this Sage and depart. Convey to the king. Convey that the Kingdom’s Heroes lost to the Empire’s Heroes."

Said in a terribly cold voice.

"If you don’t hurry, the wyverns above will eat you!"

The woman called Tamer shouts. With that voice as the signal, the Kingdom people, regardless of knights or attendants, stood up all at once and ran starting with themselves. The wyverns are circling low above. After all how many will be able to reach the hot spring land? Xu Meiyi conveyed to the wyverns that they may eat the Kingdom people as they like.